Tim Reeves Email & Phone Number

San Mateo, Ca, Us

San Mateo, Ca, Us

San Mateo, Ca, Us

Nicosia, Cy

• Maintained Havok physics integration into proprietary engine and toolset.• Developed systems to use Havok destruction in game using pre fractured assets. This was implemented using a mix of static and skinned meshes, as well as instance rendering.• Developed a directed acyclic job graph, which was used to execute jobs that had dependencies. This system was used to run Havok jobs in our proprietary job manager.• Created a system for ray casts to query past the Havok physics and into the graphics mesh, this system was utilized to get higher fidelity ray cast results without having expensive physics assets.• Developed a camera system using a node based blend tree for designers and content creators to create complex camera behaviors through data driven systems.

• Lead Engineer in charge of handling team scheduling and ensuring delivery of technical milestones to major publisher for project shipped worldwide on 5 platforms in 3 different regions.• Trained and mentored engineers to promotions through code reviews and systems design• Ported major engine features to the PS4, fixed bugs for platform and handled all shipping requirements• Implemented Streaming Install (play as you download) system for both next generation platforms• Optimized Animation Decompression by converting the system to run asynchronously, including SPUs for PS3• Created a Skeletal Mesh Editor that stitched parts of meshes together to allow content creators the ability to increase variance while decreasing the amount of time it took to create a unique meshes• Developed an animation-driven combat system using a Hierarchical State Machine allowing designers and content creators to easily create very complex interactions between multiple characters

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• Developed a fully networked weapon system complete with modern auto-aim helper systems for console players• Researched and implemented anti-cheat and host-advantage fixes into the base weapons system in Unreal3• Developed base game types for multiplayer which laid groundwork for the shipping product• Developed a realistic hit reaction system blending animation poses and ragdoll physics using PhysX• Developed a hierarchical state driven AI system that allowed designers to develop complex behaviors in a visual node editor. Behaviors where defined by Action and Condition nodes and executed using various heuristics.• Developed a formation system for AI aiding the player in co-op style single player gameplay, it utilized the navigation mesh to find various tactical positions while the player was moving.• Implemented an animation driven traversal system for AI which allowed the AI characters to navigate between navigation meshes using nodes and root motion animation.

Kirkland, Wa, Us

• Worked heavily with the ability system, writing custom scripted abilities in C++ and Python• Developed and maintained a framework for headless clients used to regress major game systems